Map of Hispaniola
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 345mm
width (print): 345mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the island of Hispaniola with names of key locations and ports seen across the coast. The west half of the island is labelled ‘PARTIE FRANCOIS’ with the east half labelled ‘PARTIE ESPAGNOLE’ as the map shows the island whilst it was colonised by the French and Spanish and known as Saint Domingue. The island is now divided into two separate countries, Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic in the east.
Plate 61 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.61.’ With a cartouche top left: ‘ISLE DE / SAINT DOMINGUE / Echelle de 15 Lieues Com̃unes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 61 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.61.’ With a cartouche top left: ‘ISLE DE / SAINT DOMINGUE / Echelle de 15 Lieues Com̃unes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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